to chunk
- verb
- /tʃʌŋk/
- You can have more, as long as you group and chunk.
You used to be able to chunk your address book together into fifty person broadcast lists on WhatsApp.
- You used to be able to chunk your address book together into fifty person broadcast lists on WhatsApp.
Examples
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What feels overwhelming before we begin is chunked into shorter, attainable goals.
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Depending on how much content you are covering, you may need to chunk some of the topics or ideas together.
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Do you see how we chunk things together?
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We also tend to chunk information into groups that have 3 to 4 items in them.
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Chunking information is one more strategy.
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The teaching procedures are "chunked" into sections for the number of class periods allotted for the unit.
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This allowed the data to be chunked into themes and provided an organizational framework.
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Clearly labeled diagrams, including lists, tables, charts, or graphs, can help to chunk information.
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To recall musical passages that contain more than nine notes, individual notes must be grouped, or "chunked," according to meter, harmony, and rhythmic patterning.
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We need to chunk the data into manageable sections for better analysis.
Synonyms
To put different people or things together as if they are the same
To put things into groups to study them
To gather different things into one group
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Etymology
Chunk as a verb comes from the noun idea of a 'chunk' — a big piece — so to chunk things is to group items together into a larger unit. That is why teachers or analysts 'chunk' ideas to make them easier to handle.